Juliet Marillier Quotes

Nobody expects you to exhibit godlike strength, excepting maybe yourself.

The world is simple, I think, in its essence. Life, death, love, hate. Desire, fulfillment. Magic.

For indeed you have a choice. You can flee and hide, and wait to be found. You can live out your days in terror, without meaning. Or you can take the harder choice, and you can save them.

Even in that time of utter darkness, somewhere deep inside me the memory of love and goodness had stayed alive.

There is no truth on this island of yours. Rather, there are as many truths as there are stars in the sky; and every one of them different.

Eat of my deep earth, drink of my living streams, for I am your Mother. Your heart is my wild drum, your breath my eternal song. If you would live, dance with me!

He and I…we share a bond. Not love, exactly. It goes beyond that. He is mine as surely as sun follows moon across the sky. Mine before ever I knew he existed. Mine until death and beyond.

The most powerful weapon is hope.

Water and stone Flesh and bone Night and morn Rose and thorn Tree and wind Heart and mind

Good and bad; shade and sunlight, there's but a hair's breath between them. It's all one in the end.

Stronger than iron crueler than death sweeter than springtime it lives beyond breath

There is no good or evil, save in the way you see the world. There is no dark or light save in your own.

If a man has to say trust me, Gogu conveyed, it's a sure sign you cannot. Trust him, that is. Trust is a thing you know without words.

She went on because there was no going back.

But I believe we all have an inner goodness; a little flame that stays alight through the worst of trials.

You cannot poison what is between us with your foul words. She is my light in the darkness and Johnny is my pathway ahead.

I would hold on, and hold on, until my hands clutch at emptiness.

If a man truly loves, he gives no heed to what others may think. His heart has no room for that, for it is filled to the brim with the unutterable truth of his feelings.

The error was not yours, Somerled, " Eyvind said quietly, moving to the doorway. "It was mine. I failed to teach you the one lesson you could not do without: how to be a man.

You are a devious woman, Blackthorn, ' she said. 'I prefer the term strategic thinker.

You've only just discovered you have a heart. Let it beat a little.

His touch was like a bard's on his instrument, and it awakened a deep and mysterious music in my body.

Three children lay on the rocks at the water's edge.A dark-haired girl, two boys, slightly older.This image is caught forever in my memory, like some fragile creature preserved in amber.

For the others, it was still just a tale, like all the tales we told, night by night, tales comical and strange, tales heroic and awe-inspiring, the tales that formed the fabric of our spirits.

Who would awaken the past? It shines like a sunriseAnd cuts like a fine blade.

I like your anger, ' the Hag said mildly. 'I like your resistance. It makes you less than courteous, but altogether more interesting.

What I do . . . the path I tread . . . it brings some choices that test me hard.

...if you give respect, yet get respect back. If you offend, you get...retribution.

I wonder how it takes you, that moment when everything turns to shadows.

You bound him to you with your courage and your tales. You hold him to you now. You captured a wild creature when you had no place you could keep him.

His eyes reflected the open grey of the autumnal sky.

Even when I was young and content and thought life would bring good things for me and mine, I didn't believe in miracles.

Perhaps this is what the stories meant when they called somebody heartsick. Your heart and your stomach and your whole insides felt hollow and empty and aching.

Look forward, not back, " the Hag said. "All is change. Do not regret. Instead, learn.